Judge, 1887-07-02 · page 14 of 16
Judge — July 2, 1887 — page 14: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Judge magazine with minimal editorial content. The small satirical pieces are standard "humor filler": **The "Decisions Handed Up" column** contains brief joke-comments on news items, typical of Judge's format. Notable references include: - **Mary Hodes (age 100, smoker)**: A joke implying that smoking and drinking *extend* life rather than harm it—satire mocking temperance advocates who would cite her as a cautionary tale. - **Rollo dialogue**: A mock-serious conversation where "Father" proposes abolishing poverty by making everyone poor—satirizing radical labor proposals (note the reference to "new labor paper") as impractical. The page is dominated by **legitimate advertisements** for Waltham watches, billiard tables, printing presses, and various products. The "Cure for Deaf" and "Judge's Free Railway Accident Insurance Policy" ads are period marketing rather than satire. Overall, this is a **routine advertising/filler page** with light satirical commentary on contemporary labor movements and social reform, not a major political cartoon.
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DECISIONS HANDED UP, There is less originality in profanity: than of the Fourth of July inspires | ansthing else, Ttis.as old as sin.—Ner Orlears he y with a belief that the p | Picayune. ": cracker must xo off. —Pittsburg Dispatch. FOR |, Mary Hodes of Elton, England, who reached CU R THE DE AF | her 100th birthday recently, “drinks rum and is . an inveterate smoker of tobacco.” This para- rari y iienore the i arias eed we graph should be suppressed before somebod Eo oye a pom Finals I iming Watches, _|indertakes to draw a leson from it. It is be abet Hee eae a lieved that she wouldn't have been 50 years old | yoo to-day if she ha: smoked cigarettes instead of esacsclisoed ine! With or Without Split Seconds, _ | tebacco.—Norristown Heral :. CiM ll RIN ING 0 and Minute Register. “*Pather,” asked Rollo, looking up be PBE P T PRESS new labor paper, the Lounger at Rest orge Henry proposes to abolish pove . MANUFACTURED AND GUARANTEED HY THY the do that: by making us all rich é ING Bod no, aay son, by making us all poo a ae ic : a RR oor? As poor as old Lazarus, the beggar facturers of High Class Cylin American Waltham Watch (6.. | Xie, not exactly: about as poor as Mr. es, al “2nd ‘how. poor is he? As poor as his pa wt Newspaper Offices, : WALTHAM, MASS And the whole Rollo family rose and shouted | site necessary to the raphd and most perfect print in chorus, "Not by a long chalk !"—Duntette. ¢ of fine cit and color work, or country hows, paper work. en The gas-meter was invented in 1831, but lying Tne WaLtiam CHRONOGRAPH was prevalent several years before that ied | Offices—New York, 160 Willinm street, A men New York Mail. Chteng 306 Dearborn Street, combines an ACCURATE stop- : number of yachts are advertised f7 watch for sporting, astronomi- but of course that’s what sachts | | THE CORCORAN WINDMILL | and general scientific _pur- e built for.—Lovell Citizen. 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